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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Happy Anniversary Alice!

Today I am celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, by taking part in a celebratory blog hop featuring lots of creative projects inspired by this wonderfully strange, and adventurous story.

Not only will you be awed by all of the amazing artwork, but you can also win prizes from these generous companies;

Prize winners will be selected from random blogs throughout the hop. In order to be eligible for a prize, you must visit all stops on the hop and leave a comment. The prize draws will be open until July 18th, with winners announced on July 20th.

Okay, now that all of that is out of the way, I bet you'dlike to check out myAlice in Wonderland inspired project.

I recently got some new craft room storage and ended up with a bunch ofdividers that were intended for some of the new drawers. I opted to fill the drawerswithout the help of the dividers, but thought that they'd make good wall hangings.Into the hoarded pile they went! And then I had an idea for some AIWwall art.

I began by painting the panel bright red, and then applied a white

crackle effect over the top. That was way too white, so I toned it down

with a brown acrylic wash. I wiped most of it back, but left enough to give it

a nice, antiqued feel. It is the 150th Anniversary, after all.

I manipulated the Vera Lane images in Gimp, and created thepanel and images to fit my layout and design.

I punched holes at the bottom of the panel and added ribbons and charms.

I made the Queen of Hearts charm using a small playing card, Crackle Accents,

grunge board, and Glossy Accents on the back to seal everything. I added a red beaded

accent to the bottom as well. Super fancy!

Well, that does it for me.
Enjoy the rest of the hop, and if you are only arriving here
by chance and want to check out the entire hop, the list of
participating blogs is listed below for your convenience.

i can't stop looking at this, it is amazing. would love to try and make something similar I have the stamps and you have inspired me to try some of these techniques. Gimp i am not familiar with so i will start with checking that out thank you for sharing your amazing piece.

Ah, you made me fall in love with those images! Thanks for introducing this talented artist to us - I love her digi stamps and just got me some. And your Alice project is so awesome! Wow! You just inspired me - as usual!